This Log.
Still writing Feb's log - doing experimentation to make it
compatible with new browsers and generally "improving",
i.e. fiddling with it.
Having said that - a lot of changes have been and are being made in
previous pages.
If your computer does not up-date pages by
refreshing or re-loading them automatically, please could you go and do so
manually.
OR - if pages are misbehaving, refresh the page that you come from first,
then refresh the faulty page. If it still plays up - please
use the "contact Albert" link above the banner picture and tell
me. This goes for photos too.
Ideally, I should put a note on each page I
change to ask readers to refresh it, but that would not get us anywhere -
it would only appear on the fresh page, and readers would not see the note
until after they had refreshed - definitely a piece of cyber genius/idiocy
that has been swept under the carpet. Taking
and displaying photos appropriate to a Narrow Boat's log is difficult at
this time of year. Christmas and arrival of new grandchild
photos are more suited to a family "blog", which this
ain't. However, things should look up with the
purchase of a cheap point and shoot camera to supplement the splendid
Olympus. Hoping this will re-enable the quick decision
"that's life" photography of previous years. The
log's "banner" pictures should reflect season and/or where Albert
currently lies - hence the use of the Keyhaven picture bottom right as
this month's banner was not really appropriate. It was taken
some years back, in the summer/autumn, so it has come down to give way to
the panorama of the marshes and sea wall along the coast immediately west of Lymington. The forest of masts in the marina can
be seen in the distance, as can one of our Lymington to Yarmouth I.o W.
ferries
This Month - February 2010.
Difficult to write much about Feb 2010 without
wingeing, but here goes. On
the 2 fine days (only 2) leapt aboard Brompton, to re-explore Pennington Marshes
and Solent Foreshore - last visited almost exactly a year ago.
Nothing changed - but noticeable how very friendly and cheerful the sea
wall walkers - lots, and mostly of an age with Albert's Crew - were. Otherwise
month spent watching weather through streaming windows - rain interspersed
with snow, accompanied by a vicious east wind straight from Siberia that
neither passed "go", nor collected $200. Bad
news - could not get clearing bushes and trash where the big Corsica Pines
got bored with withstanding the constant wind and decided to soldier no
more, laying down their arms terminally. Vast expense -
uninsured. Good
News - the garden tap on the outside wall of the house - completely
unprotected - did not freeze up and burst while house
unoccupied during really hard freezing weather of January, and personal
idiocy had precluded turning mains water "off" before departure
for Australia
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